Observations on Divers Passages of Scripture. Placing Many of Them in a Light Altogether New ... and More Amply Illustrating the Rest Than Has Been Yet Done, by Means of Circumstances Incidentally Mentioned in Books of Voyages and Travels Into the East: In Two Volumes. ...J. Johnson, 1797 |
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... heat , which fome years is quite infupportable , and actually proved fatal to feveral the year be- fore they were there , though Eafter , at which time these pilgrimages are made , then hap- pened in the month of March . They then who ...
... heat , which fome years is quite infupportable , and actually proved fatal to feveral the year be- fore they were there , though Eafter , at which time these pilgrimages are made , then hap- pened in the month of March . They then who ...
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... heat of the fun , till about the middle of September . That the verdure of the Spring fades before the middle of May , and before the end of that month the whole country puis on fo parched and barren an afpect , that one would fearce ...
... heat of the fun , till about the middle of September . That the verdure of the Spring fades before the middle of May , and before the end of that month the whole country puis on fo parched and barren an afpect , that one would fearce ...
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In Two Volumes. ... Thomas Harmer. extreme heat . That the more delicate never make fires till about the end of November , and Some few pass the whole winter without them . That the trees begin to lofe their leaves before the middle of ...
In Two Volumes. ... Thomas Harmer. extreme heat . That the more delicate never make fires till about the end of November , and Some few pass the whole winter without them . That the trees begin to lofe their leaves before the middle of ...
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... heat was exceffive in the vallies on each fide . If the rains of December are fometimes fo extremely cold in the Holy - Land , we fhall not at all wonder when we recollect this cir- cumstance , notwithstanding what St. Jerome has faid ...
... heat was exceffive in the vallies on each fide . If the rains of December are fometimes fo extremely cold in the Holy - Land , we fhall not at all wonder when we recollect this cir- cumstance , notwithstanding what St. Jerome has faid ...
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... heat , while they talked concerning Ezekiel ; while perfons among them in better circumftances fat in their porches or gate - ways . That they use their porches or gate - ways in winter as well as fummer , appears from Dr. Pococke's ...
... heat , while they talked concerning Ezekiel ; while perfons among them in better circumftances fat in their porches or gate - ways . That they use their porches or gate - ways in winter as well as fummer , appears from Dr. Pococke's ...
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